Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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201. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the additional expenditure her Department will need to incur in 2015 and 2016 to deal with demographic pressures [40438/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The principal demographic impact on the projected expenditure of the Department of Social Protection in the years ahead relates to the ongoing increase in the number of older people. It is estimated, in this regard, that the annual increase in expenditure on the main pension schemes operated by the Department will be in the order of €200 million in both 2015 and 2016 arising from demographic factors.